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252 Pages·2013·6.6 MB·English
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by Mark Evan Bonds| 2013| 252 pages| 6.6| English

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Although form is one of the most commonly used terms in music interpretation it remains one of the most ambiguous This penetrating study explores evolving ideas of musical form from a historical perspective and sheds new light on current conceptualizations of music Mark Evan Bonds examines the image dominant among eighteenth century composers and analysts of music as a language a kind of wordless discourse which could move audiences In the Baroque and Classical periods an instrumental composition was viewed as analogous to an oration its form the intelligible elaboration of a central thematic idea The predominant emphasis therefore was on the perspective of the listener This rhetorical metaphor is shown giving way in the nineteenth century to the idea of a musical work as an organic entity an image that emphasizes the autonomy of the work The listener in effect becomes merely an interested third party In his account of these changing perspectives Bonds draws on the writing of a broad range of eighteenth and nineteenth century theorists His analyses focus on specific sonata form movements by Haydn Mozart and Beethoven and are informed by the theoretical premises that characterize the composers own times In a final synthesis the eighteenth century rhetorical model with its focus on the structural function of musical ideas and the role of the listener emerges as a forerunner of today s listener oriented and plot theories about musical form In Wordless Rhetoric Bonds makes fruitful use of literary theory to develop his innovative evaluation of musical form This book will be invaluable to anyone who studies music or seeks to understand music analysis

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Author:Mark Evan Bonds
Publication Year:2013
ISBN:9780674733411
Pages:252
Language:English
File Size:6.6
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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